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Reply to "Teachers: why aren’t you weighing in on the redshirt debates?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I teach a primary grade in FCPS and am killing time during a practice. I think red-shirting is ridiculous and created a problem that didn't need to exist. What happens in my grade is that there are kids with summer birthdays held back for K who are way more mature and advanced than kids who went on time. So, I basically do my best to meet the kids where they are, but I have been in many CLT or kid watch meetings where a teacher would go on about a kid who is 16 months younger than the oldest kid in the class. There is a broader range of behavior expectations based on age. It just sucks that the academics ramp up and we can't modify for this so we have kids who are frustrated and this begins the whole kid watch nonsense. Take a look at that ADHD study. I think there was a correlation by age. I just wish we all would send our kids on time so we had a year between the kids. This year I have 18 months between my oldest and youngest.[/quote]
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